In a major breach of public trust and confidence, the Chinese digital certificate authority China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) certified false credentials for numerous domains, including several owned by Google. The d...

The Mozilla Foundation, the organization which develops the Firefox web browser, has joined Google in saying that it will stop trusting all new digital certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). Th...

Google announced today that it is planning to block digital certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CINNIC) and Egypt-based MCS Holdings, an intermediate certificate authority operated under the authori...

Last month, a Chinese certificate authority issued valid security certificates for a number of domains, including Google’s, without their permission, which was a major trust breach in the SSL chain and could have resulted in man-in-...